The Empire City; or, New York by Night and Day. Its Aristocracy and its Dollars.
Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, [1864].
Price: $300.00
About the item
Reprint. vi, 205, [3, ads] pp. 8vo. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt-lettered, previous owner’s name (Jacob Culp) at foot of spine; very good, upper hinge cracked. BAL II 11807; Reynolds, GEORGE LIPPARD, p. 133.
Item #242075
George Lippard (1822-1854) was a close friend of Poe and founder of the Brotherhood of the Union, an early labor union. His popular fiction, which “represented the wildly subversive underside of the antebellum literary scene” (ANB) is often divided between the “city mysteries” (THE QUAKER CITY), and mythologized retellings of American history (WASHINGTON AND HIS GENERALS). He died of tuberculosis at 31.
